Sarah Paulson plays Sally Talley in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Talley’s Folly.” The play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1980, tells the story of two loners (Paulson and Danny Burstein) whose survival depends on solitude, but who desperately want to be loved.

Paulson does her own makeup before each show. “That’s what happens on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway. You do your own makeup,” she says.

“I was very interested in playing a woman in self-imposed lockdown,” she says of the role.

Paulson instructs her wig not to misbehave on stage.

“I don’t think it works, so I’m going to stop doing that,” she says.

On working with Burstein: “It’s the greatest thing that ever happened to anyone, ever,” she gushes. “ You can trust him completely, that he’s not going to go off and do something self-aggrandizing and leave you in the dust.”